Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has called on
President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the
political crisis in the state.
Tension rose again on Monday as supporters of
Fayose and members of the Peoples Democratic
Party laid a siege to the 19 All Progressives
Congress lawmakers.
Amid this, the governor tendered a cheque as part of
evidence of payment of outstanding salaries and
allowances to the opposition lawmakers.
News had filtered into town Sunday night that the
lawmakers had allegedly grouped in a hotel in a
neighboring state to invade the state with a plot to
impeach Fayose, and his deputy, Dr. Kolapo Olusola.
The Police were quickly mobilised to the Ekiti State
House of Assembly to prevent breakdown of law and
order by condoning all roads leading to the Assembly
Complex.
Asides several Patrol Vans that were stationed at
every junction linking to the complex, an Armoured
Personnel Carrier was placed in front of the Assembly
while combat ready riot policemen were on guard.
The PDP members and commercial motorcyclists
blocked secretariat and NTA roads leading to the
Assembly.
As of 3pm, the PDP members were still at the
Assembly, while the policemen were still stationed
on guard.
At a statewide broadcast made later in the day, the
governor said while he would not support shedding
of blood, the people should rise to defend the
mandate given to him.
After the broadcast, commercial life in the city went
dead as traders hurriedly locked their shops while
civil servants packed their bags and left for home
before the official closing time.
Fayose, while addressing journalists earlier in Ado
Ekiti over the tension in town, insisted that all the
entitlements of the APC lawmakers had been paid,
contrary to the denial of Speaker Adewale Omirin.
The governor flaunted copies of Skye Bank cheques
of May 26, 2015, issued to the lawmakers to
corroborate his claim.
One of the cheques, which bore the name Boluwade
Kehinde, was received on behalf of the lawmaker
and had a sum of N2,149,052 .37 on it.
Fayose warned that it would amount to contempt of
court for Omirin to continue with any impeachment
proceedings against him in view of the ruling
delivered by Justice E.S. Chukwu of the Federal High
Court, which ordered that status quo as of April 23
be maintained pending the determination of the
motion on notice.
The Assembly PDP leader, Dele Olugbemi, and six
other lawmakers, had in the suit, sought an
interlocutory injunction among other reliefs
restraining the APC lawmakers from commencing
impeachment against Fayose.
The governor said, “They have been dropping the
name of President Muhammadu Buhari as giving
them the backing to impeach me. How can an
Assembly, whose tenure will wind up on Thursday be
planning this. I wonder why the issue of the past
should be allowed to come to play now.
“As of the date the court gave the order, I mean April
23, Adewale Omirin was not the speaker. It will be
wrong for the court order not to be respected. This is
illegality and I want to raise this for the public to
know.
“Omirin has gone to Court to challenge his
impeachment and later withdrew such, which means
he accepted he had been impeached and a cost of
N100,000 was awarded against him.
“So, he is not the Speaker. I am calling on well-
meaning Nigerians, the Chief Justice of Nigeria,
Justice Mohammed Mahmoud and
President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in this
matter.
“How can somebody be living in another State and
be planning to invade his own state; this is
something else and I view this as a major crime
anyone can commit against his people.”
On the payment of the salaries and other benefits to
the lawmakers, Fayose said, “They came to collect
the cheques in Ado Ekiti in company with the
Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Toyin Ojo.
“The issue would have been discussed publicly
during the peace parley, but they insisted that it
should not be discussed openly because they didn’t
want the leaders of their party to know,” he added.
Fayose urged Ekiti people to be prepared by keeping
eyes on the lawmakers and prevent them from
carrying out their alleged nefarious act.
www.punchng.com/news/fayose-urges-buhari-to-intervene-in-ekiti-crisis/

Na lie u never see anything,



shebi na the buhari u say he's not fit.

Was it not the same fayose that called PMB all sorts of name,making adverts in mockery of PMB and telling to world not to support PMB,or is it another ayodele fayose that is now beseeching Pmb for aid...hmmn

Wow

Fayose must be impeached this week

Mehn billions of ideas on how to mock this guy are running into my brain at the speed of light right now. I'm confused.

FreeGlobe:
lol. Fayose giving APC sleepless nights since 1999.

Hahaha sleepless nights indeed

abraka00:
Of course.Remember he defeated incubent twice(AD and APC) . They are afraid of him.

See how life is

Fake news!

very funny indeed, the bush meat have turned to the hunter. am not sure that dis man will survive this impeachment dis time around

freshness2020:
Fake news!

PDP erats talking, ur role model will soon be impeached

Gej my hero , fayose my role model. Amaechi must go to jail.

I beg sir!

abduljabbar4:
Mehn billions of ideas on how to mock this guy are running into my brain at the speed of light right now. I'm confused.


Hahaha sleepless nights indeed

See how life is

I'm not for all these media talk. APC should do their worst

"The governor said, “They have been dropping the
name of President Muhammadu Buhari as giving
them the backing to impeach me. How can an
Assembly, whose tenure will wind up on Thursday be
planning this. I wonder why the issue of the past
should be allowed to come to play now."

I laughed at the bolded part. Fayose(an executive governor) single handedly sealed off the state assembly preventing the elected lawmakers from carrying out their duties and yet, he is still surprised as to why the legislators wanted to impeach him.

Fayose is the F in ROTFLOL

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Hahaah i said it that the first of June will make sense die, Fayose you are a gooner..